This document provides information regarding each AHS metropolitan area and the geographic boundaries that were used in each survey year from 1973 to 2013.

This document provides detailed information about the geographic indicators in the AHS PUFs from 1985 through 2013

This document explains how to use the 2011 and 2013 PUFs to produce national and metropolitan area estimates.

See a complete list of Metropolitan Areas and Years in Sample

This document is a guide containing information users need to know before downloading and using the 1973-1996 AHS Public Use Files.

This document is a guide containing information users need to know before downloading and using the 1997-2013 AHS Public Use Files.

Information on how to track all cases that were at any point on a PUF between 1985 and 2013.

The AHS produces an Internal User File for researchers working on approved projects. This document explains what the IUF is and how to gain access.

This document explains how to estimate variances and other measures of variability for the 2009 and later AHS public use files.

This document describes sources of error in the AHS and provides methods for assessing measurement error and estimating standards errors from sampling.

The HUD-assisted oversample was included in the 2011 and 2013 surveys. Information on the frame development, sample selection, and weighting is included.

Dependent interviewing uses results from previous surveys to reduce respondent burden. This document shows how it was for AHS in the years 2013 and earlier.

This document provides an overview of the various disclosure avoidance techniques applied to the AHS summary table estimates and microdata between 1985 and 2013

The purpose of this document is to explain the imputation strategies for item non-response in the American Housing Survey (AHS) for 1997 through 2013

This report presents the topical modules that have been included in the AHS since 2009 and summarizes HUD’s rotating topical module strategy.